What would happen if people on benefits were given more money?

[ricgem2002]

Haha, so that would cover the £2,311 billion UK debt plus the additional 80bn or more the government will have to borrow this year and leave money over to increase spending?

 

I think some of you have no idea what kind of a mess this economy is in.

who said owt about covering the uk debt not me you asked where this extra money came from i gave you examples:hihi:. i think we all know what mess we are in started by people who are out of their depth and getting rewarded for failure simples

[Staunton]

vodaphone/amazon/costco feel free to add more if you like:rolleyes:

 

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, RBS, Halifax, Deloitte, KPMG, Price Waterhouse Cooper, Ernst & Young, Vodafone, Boots, Starbucks, Top Shop, Accessorize, Miss Selfridge, Boots, Virgin, Tesco, Asda, Cadbury, Walkers, Diageo, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Schweppes, Associated British Foods, Serco, Amey, Capita, G4S, Care UK, Core Children's Services, Spire Healthcare, Circle Health, Ramsey Health Care, General Healthcare Group, GE Healthcare, Yorkshire Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Stagecoach, First, Arriva, Facebook, ebay, Google, Sky, Apple, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Ladbrokes, 888, William Hill, Betfred, Money Shop, Caffe Nero, Fortnum and Mason, Primark, Mothercare, Gap...

 

I could go on, and on...

 

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Just get in more debt.

Its a bit of a ridiculous thread,why would people want to give the ones on benefit more money?it would just encourage low paid workers to go onto benefits,if the gov are going to give money away surely better to give it to the minimum wage earners thus encouraging the benefit folk back to work.

Is this too easy a solution to this thread.

 

What work? The government's own figures state that there are over two and a half million people without work, and that there are only 500,000 vacancies. And as we all know, most successful job applications are made by those already in work.

[El Cid]

 

No matter how able a person is, the fact remains that there is no work available.

 

According to the latest official figures released by the Office of National Statistics in January, the UK has around 300,000 jobs on offer. Between October and December, employers were looking for 400,000 new workers – though this is some 20,000 fewer than a year before.

 

Tjobs, Romania's largest foreign jobs website, advertised 47,832 jobs in the UK last year.

 

http://www.tjobs.ro/locuri-de-munca-in-strainatate/anglia-marea-britanie/

[Mr-bean]

A phrase comes to mind divide and conquer.

[I1L2T3]

Most of them would spend it on rubbish instead of investing for the future.

 

It wouldn't matter what they spent it on. Why do you even care?

 

The government wants people to spend to get the economy moving. Give money to middle class people in this environment and they will save it or pay down debt. Give it to people with pent-up demand and it'll flow straight into the economy, drive growth and help many businesses to survive.

[El Cid]

 

Give money to middle class people in this environment and they will save it or pay down debt.

 

Are poor people not in debt to loan sharks?

[s2 blade]

Where would the government get the extra money from?

 

The taxpayer of course .

[I1L2T3]

According to the latest official figures released by the Office of National Statistics in January, the UK has around 300,000 jobs on offer. Between October and December, employers were looking for 400,000 new workers – though this is some 20,000 fewer than a year before.

 

Tjobs, Romania's largest foreign jobs website, advertised 47,832 jobs in the UK last year.

 

http://www.tjobs.ro/locuri-de-munca-in-strainatate/anglia-marea-britanie/

 

2.5 million into 300,000 doesn't go very well. Then there is the problem of people in part-time work who want full-time work but can't find it.

 

Basically the UK is short of several million full-time jobs.

[Joseph Anton]

 

What work? The government's own figures state that there are over two and a half million people without work, and that there are only 500,000 vacancies. And as we all know, most successful job applications are made by those already in work.

 

There are more folk in work than at any time in the countries history. Over 1 million private sector jobs have been created in the last 2 1/2 years. The problem is that Europe is in recession and countries like Spain, and Greece have unemployment at well over 20%. Under EU rules we cannot prevent them coming here and taking the jobs whilst many of the 2.5 million out of work here are better off on benefits than in work.

I don't know why we signed up to the Treaty of Rome, but there is little we can do about it. However increasing benefits will just make more folk here think they are better off not working and create even more jobs for migrant workers.

 

From the BBC 2 days ago

 

"The number of people out of work rose by 7,000 to 2.52 million in the three months to January, according to the Office for National Statistics.

 

The unemployment rate of 7.8% of the economically active population was unchanged from the previous quarter.

 

The number of people in work increased by 131,000, to 29.73 million."

[Staunton]

A phrase comes to mind divide and conquer.

 

And I must acknowledge that it is working. As Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level which details the impact of inequality, noted on Newsnight just a couple of weeks ago, attitudes towards the poor have hardened over the last 2 years.

 

On the same programme Peter Lilley, former Secretary of State for Social Security, sought to justify the term 'undeserving poor', and Michael Portillo on Radio 4's The Moral Maze was championing the process of stigmatisation only last week.

 

It doesn't take much to see the plan behind this policy, but it is clearly effective. However, thoughtful and reflective folk can usually see right through such nonsense.